Access our guidance to help you decide if you should set up a new charity, voluntary organisation or community group
What you need to consider when choosing your legal structure and the main characteristics of different legal structures
Find out what charity status is and if you need to register as a charity
Find out about social enterprises and their associated legal structures
Find out what information should be included in your charity's governing document
Guidance and tools to help you run your charity or voluntary organisation
Practical guidance to help you recruit, manage and develop paid members of staff, including a useful introduction to employment law
Familiarise yourself with the essential aspects of employing paid members of staff
Understand your core legal responsibilities to your employees
A short summary of your general legal obligations to paid members of staff
We’ve written to the chancellor calling for urgent action on the planned increase to employer National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for the voluntary sector
This Trustees' Week we celebrated the role of trustees across the UK and explored the challenges and opportunities in trustee recruitment and retention
How to conduct interviews
How to carry out pre-employment checks
Safeguarding for onboarding, training and support
How to conduct exit interviews safely
Safeguarding questions to use during interviews
How you can support safeguarding for your organisation, internally and externally
How to communicate about your organisation's work safely
How to make safeguarding a central part of your fundraising
Making sure you’ve covered important aspects of safeguarding when fundraising
What are the safeguarding risks associated with different types of fundraising?